Quick Glance: Democrat Initiates Vote to Expel Republican George Santos
- Democratic Representative Robert Garcia starts process to force a vote on expelling George Santos
- Santos faces federal charges of fraud, money laundering, and theft of public funds
- Two-thirds of the House of Representatives must vote in favor for expulsion
- Nine House Republicans, including six from New York, call on Santos to resign
Quick Glance: A committee on January 6 proposes criminal charges against Donald Trump.
- The proposal is mostly symbolic, with the US Justice Department determining whether or not to charge Mr Trump.
- Democrat Bennie Thompson, chair of the committee, said, "We have every confidence that the work of this committee will help provide the road map to justice."
- Ms Cheney noted that prosecutors are now assessing the ramifications of the behaviour highlighted in the committee's findings.
- According to Mr. Trump's lawyer, John Eastman, "A criminal 'referral' from a congressional committee is not binding on the Department of Justice and carries no more legal weight than a 'referral' from any American citizen."
Quick Glance: A lawyer assisting Trump in late 2020 emailed Kobach and others about Pence, according to a Jan. 6 report.
- According to the final report of the U.S. House committee investigating the Capitol attack that day, Kansas Attorney General-elect Kris Kobach was among a group of eight attorneys in December 2020 who received an email from pro-Trump lawyer John Eastman discussing potential intervention by the vice president on Jan. 6, 2021.
- Former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline, a Republican, was summoned by the House January 6 Committee in March, and according to the final report, Kline was among a slew of witnesses who were unable to offer evidence of widespread election fraud in 2020.
Quick Glance: Donald Trump engaged in a "multi-part conspiracy" to alter the lawful outcome of the 2020 presidential election, according to the final report of a panel released on January 6.
- According to a study by US politicians, Donald Trump was involved in a "multi-part conspiracy" to overthrow the lawful results of the 2020 presidential election.
- "Rather than honour his constitutional obligation to 'take care that the laws be faithfully executed', President Trump instead plotted to overturn the election outcome."take care that the laws are faithfully executed,"take care that the laws be faithfully executed"
- "The highly partisan Unselect Committee Report purposefully fails to mention Pelosi's failure to heed my recommendation for troops to be used in DC, show the "Peacefully and Patriotically" words I used, or study the reason for the protest, Election Fraud," he wrote on his Truth Social platform.
Quick Glance: House Rules Package Provides Democrats with a Way to Avoid a Debt Ceiling Crisis
- The majority leader, in collaboration with the House Rules Committee, sets the floor schedule under normal circumstances, but a discharge petition can automatically pull a bill from committee and move it to the floor.
- It is extremely unlikely, for example, that Democrats could find five Republicans to sign on to a discharge petition calling for a vote to codify Roe v. Wade.
- A discharge petition to raise or eliminate the debt ceiling, on the other hand, has the potential to avert the financial crisis threatened by Freedom Caucus members who voted against Rep.
- In the interview, Ocasio-Cortez stated, "Discharge petition is an excellent vehicle,"
Quick Glance: House Republicans form committee to combat government "weaponization"
- Republicans have compared the new panel to the so-called "Church Committee," which investigated spy agency abuses in the 1970s.
- The new subcommittee will be known officially as the "Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government" and will report to the House Judiciary Committee.
- Jim Jordan of Ohio, who is set to chair the Judiciary Committee, may also serve as the subcommittee chair, according to a person familiar with the matter.
- They also compare the committee to the so-called "Church Committee" — formally known as the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Regard to Intelligence Activities — chaired by then-Democratic Sen.
Quick Glance: Trump names panel members on January 6 "thugs and scoundrels" ahead of Monday hearing
- Former President Trump attacked legislators on the House select committee probing the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the United States Capitol on Sunday, branding them "thugs and scoundrels" as the panel prepares for a final public hearing and report this week.
- According to the House committee, Trump stood by and even intensified the disturbance that day by sending an angry tweet about former Vice President Mike Pence as pro-Trump protesters stormed the Capitol in an attempt to prevent the 2020 election from being certified.
- In his ceremonial capacity as vice president, Pence was at the Capitol to certify the election.
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Quick Glance: Florida Grand Jury Joins Probe into Trump's Classified Docs
- Federal prosecutors are presenting evidence to a grand jury in Miami as part of the investigation into former President Donald Trump's alleged mishandling of classified documents.
- Several witnesses have testified before the Florida grand jury, with more expected in the coming days.
- The investigation previously relied on grand juries in Washington, D.C. It's unclear why the south Florida grand jury is now involved.
- However, a Florida court approved the warrant to search Mar-a-Lago, where Trump kept classified documents, and an assistant US attorney from Miami was present during the raid, according to CNN.
Quick Glance: George Santos' Relatives Guarantee Bond
- The two people who secretly guaranteed George Santos' $500,000 bond were identified as his relatives, as the embattled Republican fights a federal fraud case and an effort to expel him from the US House of Representatives.
- The 34-year-old lawmaker's father is identified in public records as a construction worker, painter and retiree living in the New York City borough of Queens who donated more than $7,800 to his son's election campaign.
- His aunt is a US Postal Service mail handler who also lives in Queens and has given more than $5,000 to his campaign.
- Media organizations argued in court that the disclosure of the guarantors' identities was a matter of public interest in a case involving an elected official.
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Quick Glance: Former Twitter executives will testify about the company's handling of the Hunter Biden story.
- WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Former Twitter employees are expected to testify before the House Oversight Committee next week about how the social media platform handled coverage of President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden.
- Chairman of the Oversight Committee James Comer stated at a press conference on Monday morning.
- Comer has stated that no hearings on the Biden family will take place until the committee has evidence to back up any allegations of wrongdoing.
- Speaking at a National Press Club event on Monday, the Kentucky Republican stated that he could not guarantee a subpoena for Hunter Biden during his term.
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Quick Glance: Donald Trump Has a New Reason to Fear the Inside Circle Turning on Him
- Special Counsel Jack Smith now has more clout with witnesses who could provide crucial information about the DOJ's investigations into Trump.
- Former President Donald Trump's inner circle may be more willing to defect now that the House committee investigating the January 6 Capitol incident has issued four criminal referrals against him.
- Smith may be able to persuade Trump's inner circle to participate with his investigations, not just the one linked to January 6, but also the one into the documents discovered at Mar-a-Lago.
Quick Glance: Rep. Schiff claims there is'sufficient evidence' to indict Trump.
- Rep. Adam Schiff feels there is enough evidence to charge former President Donald Trump criminally for his attempts to sabotage the 2020 election.According to POLITICO and other outlets, the January 6 committee is set to release its final report next week, suggesting the Justice Department to charge Trump with mutiny, obstruction of an official proceeding, and conspiracy to defraud the US government."I believe the president has broken multiple criminal laws, and I believe you should be treated like any other American who breaks the law, which is to be prosecuted," Schiff added.
Quick Glance: On January 6, a panel recommends criminal charges against former President Donald Trump.
- The committee also agreed to charge conservative lawyer John Eastman, who designed dubious legal procedures to keep Trump in power, with conspiracy to defraud the United States and impeding an official action, under the same charges as Trump.
- According to Hicks, Trump told her, "The only thing that matters is winning."
- Thompson stated after the hearing that the seditious conspiracy accusation is "something that the committee didn't come to agreement on."
- Kevin McCarthy of California, a Trump ally, opted not to participate after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected some of his appointments.